若欲詳知去歲義學若何可觀後
儒教所有教法有善 今本港仍未設有書院以育成本土人欲肩英文教師之任者故欲得確善誘人之教師則不得已動用多費請自英國來 條本意按學成某課即領某 能為愈於國家者爭衡則數年前早已不勝本土人能教英文且善於教及樂於教而所用修俸亦不若是之奢也爭奈选 牧師於心無所嫌疑且亦無傷規 立一院以育成本土人欲肩英文教之任者且多設初學英文書又不設此只教華文之義學以與本土人所樂為所 内開各款一句如此改易创聖會 載後或因病請假回籍等所有盤川亦由國家支給故也個國家在本港創教英文時只專教英文並不兼教華文又另 學二語即將世俗二字删除添入 知顚末監院亦獄陳明教習英文費用極奢之故實因英人教師請自英國來盤川不少另其修俸周歲不下三百磅數 者是廢除規條內所有世俗及初 輔與義學因彼地瘠人稀無力所致也至在五環專教華文之國家義學按做監院意見非徒無益而又害之蓋華人自理 及去歲所改輔翼義學規條若何 諸多煩瑣耳且恐國家涉其教法蓋意謂彼知教華文之法愈於國家所可知者惟在村鄉籬落之人極樂國家在彼設立 一千八百七十九年時進退若何 塾者未嘗請求國家輔助即諭知准領國家獎賞之項彼亦未協於心非謂不樂受國恩所不樂者乃國家賞給義學規條 附一片在該片可見國家義學於 此外又有要老師教學所需經費如或專教華文所費甚微故土人儒教之散館學館義學港内在在均有且掌理如此書 論及國家各義學所有費用若干與及獎賞各聖會議學之項若干請看下附數目等便 現奉 藩政大臣准设备要 欸之賞如此則各聖會牧師於選
由此觀之則國家教法必須易轍較為顯然
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6. Another question of great importance is the cost of education. Purely native teaching is extremely cheap. The consequence is that purely native Confucian Schools, public and private, abound all over the Colony. Their managers ask for no grant from Government and even decline to apply for it when invited. They would not hesitate to take the money of the Government, but they object to the training of the Grant-in-aid Schedule and fear interference with the method of teaching, believing, as they do, that they know better how to teach Chinese than a foreign Government can possibly know. In the smaller villages and hamlets of the Colony alone the people are glad to have the advantages of the Grant-in-aid Scheme because their poverty does not allow them, with their small number of families, to establish schools of their own as they would otherwise prefer to do. But in the town all purely Chinese schools kept by the Government are, in my opinion, not only uncalled for but compete injuriously with native self-help in Confucianist education without giving really a better education. For details as to the cost of the Government Schools and the amount of aid given to Grant-in-aid Schools I refer to the tables appended to this Report. But I wish to point out that the costly nature of English teaching principally consists of the salaries of English Masters, who have to be imported from England, who require free passage out, a salary of at least £300, and after some years a passage back to England on furlough or sick certificate. Had the Government, when first beginning to teach English in this Colony, confined itself to English teaching, instead of combining it with Chinese, and established a training school for native teachers of English, creating at the same time a demand for such teachers by opening Elementary English schools instead of purely Chinese schools all over the Colony and thereby needlessly competing with the natives in what they were willing enough to do themselves and what after all they do better than the Government can do, there would long ago have been furnished a supply of natives able to teach English effectively and willing to teach it at very moderate salaries. Even now training school exists in the Colony and consequently almost all English teaching in the Colony that is really effective has to be provided for by procuring the teaching power at great cost from England. A revision of the whole Educational Policy of the Government is clearly needed.
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7. Detailed information as to the changes which have taken place last year in the constitution of the Education Department will be found in the Supplements annexed to this Report. To the same Supplements I also refer for detailed information as to the progress made by the outside Government Schools in the course of the 1879, and as regards the revision of the Grant-in-aid Schedule. This revision, as far as approved at present by the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, consisted principally in the expurgation from the Schedule of the words "secular" and "elementary." For the words "secular" read "non-Chinese," and for "elementary" read "English." * These Supplements, being reprints from the Government Gazette, are not re-published here but will be inserted in Blue Book.